"MoMA moment: Flag"
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Tip by Tijavi

No Impressionistic notions, no Cubist compulsions, this is plain and simple patriotism - Jasper Johns' Flag. Made of newspaper strips and encaustic paint (a mixture of paint and molten wax), mounted on a piece of plywood, the painting can easily pass off as a real flag from a distance.

But looking at the painting closely, there are just 48 stars! Jasper Johns' Flag, completed in 1954, pre-dates the statehood of Alaska and Hawaii, both admitted to the Union in 1959.